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  • Lord John Reith You can't think rationally on an empty stomach, and a whole lot of people can't do it on a full stomach either.
    Lord John Reith
    British BBC director (1899 - 1971)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh You cannot see clearly, because you are so full of expectations, hopes, desires. Your eyes are covered with many layers of dust: you need a deep cleansing of your eyes. That's what meditation is. Let the thoughts disappear, the hopes disappear, the desires disappear. Then you have a clarity, then your eyes are perfect mirrors. Only then, in that silent state of your vision, will you know the secrets of the beyond.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • C. D. Andrews You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.
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  • Bryant H. McGill You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Bess Truman You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.
    Bess Truman
    American first lady (1885 - 1982)
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  • Busy Philipps Your first pregnancy you have nothing to do except sleep and take care of yourself and go to prenatal yoga or whatever. Now I have a full-time job, I have a four-year-old, I've got a life that is demanding my attention, so I've gone to prenatal yoga once. It's such a bummer.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Walt Whitman Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Horace Mann A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • William James A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Helen Keller Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Erica Jong Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Thomas Fuller Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • John F. Kennedy I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Fuller Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Bill Walton No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Rabindranath Tagore We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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